LOT 4614
25th November 2026
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LOT 4614
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1961. Twelfth impression, 8vo (183 x 118mm.) Colour frontispiece. (Toning, occasional staining, closed hole to title, adhesive remains to pastedowns.) Original cloth (sunned to spine). Provenance: Kensington Public Library (stamp to fore-edge). – And a further eleven volumes of 20th century fiction (including George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, 1954, 8vo, and ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’, 1954, 8vo, and ‘Animal Farm’, 1953, 8vo, and ‘Homage to Catalonia’, 1954, 8vo, and ‘Coming Up For Air’, 1948, 8vo, and ‘Burmese Days’, 1966, 8vo) (12).
Estimate: £80 – £120
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